A Fatal Case of Rhizopus azygosporus Pneumonia Following COVID-19

We report a fatal case of Rhizopus azygosporus pneumonia in a 56-year-old man hospitalized for COVID-19 who had received methylprednisolone and tocilizumab. Although COVID-associated pulmonary aspergillosis has been widely documented, mucormycosis has been rarely reported. In this patient, receipt o...

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Autores principales: Kanwar, Anubhav, Jordan, Alex, Olewiler, Scott, Wehberg, Kurt, Cortes, Michael, Jackson, Brendan R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7997212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33670842
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof7030174
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author Kanwar, Anubhav
Jordan, Alex
Olewiler, Scott
Wehberg, Kurt
Cortes, Michael
Jackson, Brendan R.
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description We report a fatal case of Rhizopus azygosporus pneumonia in a 56-year-old man hospitalized for COVID-19 who had received methylprednisolone and tocilizumab. Although COVID-associated pulmonary aspergillosis has been widely documented, mucormycosis has been rarely reported. In this patient, receipt of two commonly used immunosuppressants likely contributed to mucormycosis risk, suggesting the need for vigilance in hospitalized patients with COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-79972122021-03-27 A Fatal Case of Rhizopus azygosporus Pneumonia Following COVID-19 Kanwar, Anubhav Jordan, Alex Olewiler, Scott Wehberg, Kurt Cortes, Michael Jackson, Brendan R. J Fungi (Basel) Case Report We report a fatal case of Rhizopus azygosporus pneumonia in a 56-year-old man hospitalized for COVID-19 who had received methylprednisolone and tocilizumab. Although COVID-associated pulmonary aspergillosis has been widely documented, mucormycosis has been rarely reported. In this patient, receipt of two commonly used immunosuppressants likely contributed to mucormycosis risk, suggesting the need for vigilance in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. MDPI 2021-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7997212/ /pubmed/33670842 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof7030174 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ).
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title_short A Fatal Case of Rhizopus azygosporus Pneumonia Following COVID-19
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7997212/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof7030174
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